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Aleksei Kruchenykh's "Razboinik Van'ka-Kain" and the Literary Politics of LEF

1991; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 50; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2500211

2325-7784

Ronald Vroon,

Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies

Aleksei Kruchenykh's "Razboinik Van'ka-Kain i Son'ka-manikiurshchitsa" is the first in a cycle of four "crime novels" in verse published by the poet during the heyday of his involvement in postrevolutionary futurist politics. Unlike much of the ephemera he wrote during the 1910s, this particular poem was produced and promoted with unusual care. It first appeared in the sixth, penultimate, issue of Vladimir Maiakovskii's LEF .